2015-12-20 8:15 GMT+01:00 Marcus Denker <marcus.den...@inria.fr>: > > > On Sat, Dec 19, 2015 at 9:24 PM, Tudor Girba <tu...@tudorgirba.com> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> Strings are supposed to be immutable, and that is why we do not support >> editing by default :). >> >> > I do not think this is good... yes, it would be nice if *literal* strings > *would* be immutable, but they are not. >
Actually, that is something I work on and that should be the case in the incoming months. All literals will be immutable by default, except if you explicitly ask the compiler to compile mutable literals. > The tools should not put artificial constraints on the language model. > Strings can be changed, so the inspector > has to allow that. It is a debugging tool, after all... > > Agreed, the strings should be able to be changed, if they are immutable you will have a runtime error anyway. > Marcus >
